Matthew Bigwood

High quality web video and photography

An overview of the Ley Community, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre near Oxford.

A Mother’s Anthem, produced by Suscito for Diabetes Awareness Week.

Dad Dancing is a light hearted film about a man coming to terms with middle age. I was lucky enough to be Director of Photography on the project which was directed by Domonic White, with fantastic original music my Alex Cutter of Arpeggio Creative.

It was a no-budget production, with everyone giving their time for free, and hundreds of volunteers taking part. The premiere screening took place at Stroud’s Apollo Cinema and so far the film has raised more than £2,000 for the Prostate Cancer Charity.

The North Nibley Romania Team has worked in Eastern Europe since the early 1990s, and this short film highlights some of the work done by the team over the past two decades. Efforts are focussed on a small village in the Carpathian Mountains where there lies a neglected psychiatric hospital, home to around 150 people with long-term mental illness.